Reinel

Fast cars, voluptuous women and exploitation films have been the key ingredients for illustrator Greg "Stainboy" Reinel's band posters for more than 20 years. Besides being inspired by chicks and flicks, his artistic influences include album-cover and concert-flier designers Frank Kozik and Gary Grimshaw and pinup artist George Petty. Dark Horse Comics recently published a 112-page book of Reinel's work called Vicious Intent: The Rock 'n' Roll Art and Exploitation of Stainboy Reinel, which features a collection of bold Day-Glo posters that he has created for national music acts and movies.

Fast cars, voluptuous women and exploitation films have been the key ingredients for illustrator Greg "Stainboy" Reinel's band posters for more than 20 years. Besides being inspired by chicks and flicks, his artistic influences include album-cover and concert-flier designers Frank Kozik and Gary Grimshaw and pinup artist George Petty. Dark Horse Comics recently published a 112-page book of Reinel's work called Vicious Intent: The Rock 'n' Roll Art and Exploitation of Stainboy Reinel, which features a collection of bold Day-Glo posters that he has created for national music acts and movies.

hat kind of music can you expect from a band called The Screaming Iguanas of Love? Local fans and enthusiasts call it a mixture of jazz, new wave, funk, and rhythm and blues.Band member Greg Reinel calls it ''soul, jive, junk, trash, thing -- that's our motto. And best of all it's original -- we copy no one.''The Screaming Iguanas march, hop and dance to a different drummer -- their own. The group, which plays its own music instead of top-40 imitations, has become so popular locally that it has a crowd of followers marching -- and hopping and dancing -- along.

Hindu Cowboys have a studio album in the works, set for a September release, but there's just one catch: The group doesn't have a name for it yet and would like your ideas. "To aid you with your task I've included a secret preview of our upcoming CD's song titles," writes HC frontman Joseph Martens. "This list is very `hush hush,' so secretive in fact the band doesn't even know what songs have been selected -- hell, I don't even know! I had to cover my eyes while I typed!" Here are the song titles -- if you have any suggestions for a CD name, send `em along to Martens at is47@ao.

Carol Reinel reluctantly took the scenic route Monday after a 200-ton concrete beam rolled off a truck, closing State Road 44 for six hours and sending her 20 miles out of her way.Reinel, on vacation this week from Cincinnati, was joined by hundreds of other S.R. 44 travelers who had to take the long way around instead of crossing Haines Creek at the Lisbon bridge.Motorists were re-routed after the 143-foot-long beam fell off a tractor-trailer rig crossing the bridge that connects Leesburg and Eustis.

The wimpy likes of Bruce Springsteen and Guns N' Roses may need years to make an album. Melbourne's Screaming Iguanas of Love, however, are of hardier stock. Only nine months after the Iguanas' debut on Atlanta-based Ichiban/Naked Language Records, the self-described rockin' reptile hooligan teen combo already has a new CD in the bins.Wild Wild Wild, the first release, won some good reviews and garnered some airplay on college stations across the country. The prospects for the new Glad You Weren't There are even brighter.

On the outdoor wooden deck of the Wine Gallery, just across State Road A1A from the ocean, a young couple sat at a table lit by a flickering citronella candle. They were talking about stealing watermelons.I should have known right then that despite appearances -- the subdued interior lighting, the comfortable upholstered chairs, the attractive wall paintings by local artists -- the Wine Gallery did not attract a conventional crowd.Or conventional entertainment.A sandwich board outside the front door heralded the performance on this Friday night by -- I am not making this up -- Screaming Iguanas of Love.

Florida Highway Patrol troopers seized about 44 pounds of cocaine Thursday after stopping a motorist on Florida's Turnpike, Duty Officer Michele Wagner said. Using a drug-sniffing dog, Troopers Richard Chapman and Roy Swatts found 17 bricks of cocaine in the car's rear tire wells about 1:20 p.m., Wagner said. The troopers stopped the motorist two miles south of Kissimmee for failing to drive in a single lane, Wagner said. The driver, Reinel Gomez, 37, of Colombia, gave the troopers conflicting stories, she said.

Just back from an "extremely successful tour" in Japan last month, the Genitorturers report that the band sold-out a Tokyo show where more than 1,000 screaming fans chanted and pogo-ed. The audience "exploded" when the band launched into its single "Sin City," which has received wide airplay in Japan. "All hell broke loose and complete mayhem ensued when Gen and Racci launched themselves into the audience," the band reports. "Both escaped with only minor defiling, and both emerged smiling."

Thanks to hearing-loss poster children such as Pete Townshend and Ted Nugent, rock musicians are well aware of the danger posed by prolonged exposure to loud music.But that doesn't mean today's young musicians are turning down the amps or putting in the earplugs. Many still feel that ''rock 'n' roll'' and ''loud'' are synonymous - even if they are already experiencing hearing problems themselves.''Some nights I go, 'God, I got to be careful,' '' said Greg Reinel, singer-guitarist in Melbourne's Screaming Iguanas of Love.

Just back from an "extremely successful tour" in Japan last month, the Genitorturers report that the band sold-out a Tokyo show where more than 1,000 screaming fans chanted and pogo-ed. The audience "exploded" when the band launched into its single "Sin City," which has received wide airplay in Japan. "All hell broke loose and complete mayhem ensued when Gen and Racci launched themselves into the audience," the band reports. "Both escaped with only minor defiling, and both emerged smiling."

Usually, we don't get too excited when yet another '70s band decides to turn up and favor us with quavering renditions of songs we have spent 20 years trying to avoid.Basically, we were already sick of Styx, Foreigner and the Little River Band in 1978. We couldn't care less if they have gotten back together now, even if they promise that the lead guitarist is an actual blood relative of the original guy, and the original singer has finally given up on his floundering solo career and consented to replace the former roadie who has been leading the band since 1986.

Thanks to hearing-loss poster children such as Pete Townshend and Ted Nugent, rock musicians are well aware of the danger posed by prolonged exposure to loud music.But that doesn't mean today's young musicians are turning down the amps or putting in the earplugs. Many still feel that ''rock 'n' roll'' and ''loud'' are synonymous - even if they are already experiencing hearing problems themselves.''Some nights I go, 'God, I got to be careful,' '' said Greg Reinel, singer-guitarist in Melbourne's Screaming Iguanas of Love.

The wimpy likes of Bruce Springsteen and Guns N' Roses may need years to make an album. Melbourne's Screaming Iguanas of Love, however, are of hardier stock. Only nine months after the Iguanas' debut on Atlanta-based Ichiban/Naked Language Records, the self-described rockin' reptile hooligan teen combo already has a new CD in the bins.Wild Wild Wild, the first release, won some good reviews and garnered some airplay on college stations across the country. The prospects for the new Glad You Weren't There are even brighter.

A lot of good music never makes it to Orlando. We're just not on the itineraries of the likes of cutting-edge rock band the Mekons, non-Nashville country artist Jimmie Dale Gilmore or avant-garde jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock.But for once, Central Florida is getting something they won't get in New York or Los Angeles - at least not for a while. Roy Loney, original lead singer of cult heroes the Flamin Groovies, is on a short Florida tour backed by the Melbourne-based Screaming Iguanas of Love.

Carol Reinel reluctantly took the scenic route Monday after a 200-ton concrete beam rolled off a truck, closing State Road 44 for six hours and sending her 20 miles out of her way.Reinel, on vacation this week from Cincinnati, was joined by hundreds of other S.R. 44 travelers who had to take the long way around instead of crossing Haines Creek at the Lisbon bridge.Motorists were re-routed after the 143-foot-long beam fell off a tractor-trailer rig crossing the bridge that connects Leesburg and Eustis.

A lot of good music never makes it to Orlando. We're just not on the itineraries of the likes of cutting-edge rock band the Mekons, non-Nashville country artist Jimmie Dale Gilmore or avant-garde jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock.But for once, Central Florida is getting something they won't get in New York or Los Angeles - at least not for a while. Roy Loney, original lead singer of cult heroes the Flamin Groovies, is on a short Florida tour backed by the Melbourne-based Screaming Iguanas of Love.

Usually, we don't get too excited when yet another '70s band decides to turn up and favor us with quavering renditions of songs we have spent 20 years trying to avoid.Basically, we were already sick of Styx, Foreigner and the Little River Band in 1978. We couldn't care less if they have gotten back together now, even if they promise that the lead guitarist is an actual blood relative of the original guy, and the original singer has finally given up on his floundering solo career and consented to replace the former roadie who has been leading the band since 1986.

Florida Highway Patrol troopers seized about 44 pounds of cocaine Thursday after stopping a motorist on Florida's Turnpike, Duty Officer Michele Wagner said. Using a drug-sniffing dog, Troopers Richard Chapman and Roy Swatts found 17 bricks of cocaine in the car's rear tire wells about 1:20 p.m., Wagner said. The troopers stopped the motorist two miles south of Kissimmee for failing to drive in a single lane, Wagner said. The driver, Reinel Gomez, 37, of Colombia, gave the troopers conflicting stories, she said.

hat kind of music can you expect from a band called The Screaming Iguanas of Love? Local fans and enthusiasts call it a mixture of jazz, new wave, funk, and rhythm and blues.Band member Greg Reinel calls it ''soul, jive, junk, trash, thing -- that's our motto. And best of all it's original -- we copy no one.''The Screaming Iguanas march, hop and dance to a different drummer -- their own. The group, which plays its own music instead of top-40 imitations, has become so popular locally that it has a crowd of followers marching -- and hopping and dancing -- along.